I have an older Rocketfish 5.1 soundcard and I am having frequent loud static explosion sounds occuring every 20-30 seconds while trying to play this game... It is completely unplayable like this; I don't have this issue with any of my other games.
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Seriously? Can I get a responce on this or should I request a refund? I expect a game to be playable when I purchase it.
Community AdminNot aware of this card.
Do you have the latest audio driver for your sound card?
Other then that, any chance that you can try adjusting the audio settings for your card within Windows? If you currently have it set to 5.1 try change it to other settings to see whether you still experience the loud static that way.
I have the latest drivers for the card yes; I play dozens of games and do not have this issue with any other game, this only occurs with dragon age inquisition. I have a 5.1 speaker setup... I shouldn't have to disable 3 of my speakers plus sub woofer in order to have working audio.
Community AdminChangin from 5.1, to 4 speakers and 2 speakers did not fix the problem. The sound will be isolated to one speaker at a time usually... Usually I'll hear it out ot the front left or right speaker... it doesn't occur in all speakers at once... But it is very loud... sounds like a static bomb and is occuring every 10-20 seconds of gameplay... It does not occur during cut scenes.... but is frequently happening while I'm moving around in the intro tutorial area.
So I guess I should request a refund since no one has any idea why this is happening and not likely to provide me with any solutions?
Community AdminThe only other idea outside of a driver update is kind of a long shot, but here goes.
Run a Clean Boot in order to ensure that no programs are interfering in the background: http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/
While they shouldn't interfere, there is a slight chance that they do.
Found the solution.
I realized I had an on board audio card, so I tried to utilize that instead... encountered the same problem so I figured it must be something to do with the mother board... and low and behold... apparently with high overclocking my motherboard can create some audio distortion... I have been overclocking for years and occassional heard a crack or pop in the audio but it wasn't overly common... For some reason is came full bore with Dragon Age Inqusition... perhaps something to do with the number of audio channels being used at the same time? Anyway, I changed the overclock settings on my board and fixed the issue.
